Jiang Man was originally a down-and-out street singer in Shanghai. She fell in love with Gu Sheng, the eldest son of the Gu family, but was rejected by the Gu family. After being angry, she left Shanghai for Peking, where she became the red card singer of the Hong's Song and Dance Troupe and became a famous star in Peking.
Five years later, in 1935, she resolutely returned to Shanghai and became a popular artist at Meihuang Pictures. However, she was involved in the overt and covert struggles among Shanghai gangsters, Japanese spies, Shanghai military officers and business circles, and was manipulated by Tang Jishan, An Hongsheng, Shao Zhongling and others.
In a crisis-ridden and shadow-reborn Shanghai, Jiang Man faces her old lover Gu Sheng and the warlord marshal Shao Jun. What painful choices will she make...
A song "Peach Blossom River" made An Xiaoqi become the most dazzling star in Shanghai, but it made this wealthy young lady go on the path she least wanted to take.
The magnificent Bund, the prosperous Shili Foreign Market, and the lavish vocal music venue, when everything was reduced to ruins by the Japanese artillery fire, their love was immortalized.